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Sep

Philips aims to relieve persistent pain with smartphone-controlled devices


Philips will soon launch a couple of iPhone- and iPad-controlled devices, but they’re not the company’s usual phone docks or Hue smartlight models — they’re gadgets designed to help suppress persistent pain. The first device (above) called PulseRelief uses Transcutaneous Electronic Nerve Stimulation or TENS technology, which delivers electric pulses straight to your nerves. That’s supposed to prevent pain signals from reaching your brain and to release endorphins, chemicals that make you feel good and happy. There are tons of similar gadgets out there (search for “TENS device” on eBay and Amazon to see what we mean), but Philips’ version lets you choose from 60 intensity levels through its smartphone app.

Philips created PulseRelief to target those suffering from musculoskeletal pain, but its other high-tech pain reliever called BlueTouch was made to relieve muscular back pain, in particular. If BlueTouch (below) looks familiar, it’s because an older version has long been available for sale. The device shines blue LED lights against your skin, which Philips claims can induce the body to release Nitric Oxide that increases blood flow and encourages the natural healing process. Like PulseRelief, this iteration comes with a phone app, where you can choose from various treatments. Both devices will be out in stores later this September and online in November, but make sure to read up on the medical claims behind the devices (the old BlueTouch had its share of doubters) and consult your doctor before getting one.

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Via: Gizmodo, ChipChick

Source: Philips

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17
Sep

Facebook’s rumored ‘Moments’ app will help you share privately


Facebook’s megaphone-like approach to sharing makes it less than ideal for more private missives. Sharing private images or jokes with select people is something of a test of nerves. One slip of a drop-down menu, and your intimate photo could go global, rather than just to your “mates” privacy group. But, Facebook wants you to share in anyway, and to anyone you like with confidence it seems. According to TechCrunch, the social network’s working on a “Moments” mobile app to help. Once again, Facebook would be taking a single-focused idea out of the main mobile app into a standalone one if sources are correct. The Moments app will reportedly use a visual, tile-based interface for you select the group or sub groups of people you wish to share your — we assume — moment with. If this sounds a lot like Google+’s “circles” mechanism, that’s because it does. There’s no word when Moments could find its way onto phones, so for now, you’ll just have to run the gauntlet with current tools to avoid having your mom comment on bachelor(ette?) party photos.

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Source: TechCrunch

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17
Sep

Virgin Media’s TiVo design makeover begins with an updated iOS app


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For the first time in four years, Virgin Media is going to give its TiVo user interface a much-needed facelift. Gone is the rich red that previously adorned menus, replaced with a new “plum” colour (purple to the untrained eye), that’s expected to reach set-top boxes in October. As we noted last week, Virgin is bringing its TV Anywhere apps in line with the new UI, and luckily for iOS users, that rollout begins today. While you’ll first notice the colour change when you update, Virgin Media has also made a couple of tweaks to the interface to fall in line with the iOS 7/iOS 8 aesthetic. Those aging rounded buttons have have swapped gradients for a flat white design and the updated menus help give the app a more modern feel. Unfortunately for Android users, Virgin says the revamped app is still a few months from completion, but the company has released a small update to include support for more Android 4.4 (KitKat) devices.

Virgin Media's TV Anywhere iOS App

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Source: TV Anywhere (App Store)

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17
Sep

‘Goat Simulator’ is now ruining picnics and butting heads on iOS and Android


Can’t wait for the Xbox One version of Goat Simulator‘s absolute madness and have an iOS device? (Update: Or an Android one?) Well, then Coffee Stain Studios has you covered. The team’s not-at-all serious (or realistic) depiction of goat life is now available for your Apple-branded mobile gizmos, as spotted by the ever vigilant Wario64. A majority of the game’s charm comes from how intentionally glitchy and broken it is, so don’t be alarmed if, say, your hoofed avatar’s head gets stuck inside a wall. Or worse. Depending on where you live, though, it might be cheaper to keep an actual goat that to download this $5 game to your smart device of choice.

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Via: Wario64 (Twitter)

Source: iTunes, Google Play

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17
Sep

LG to Supply Apple Watch Displays, Apple Aiming to Sell 50 Million Units in 2015 [iOS Blog]


LG Display will supply the AMOLED displays for the Apple Watch when it launches in 2015, reports Digitimes. According to the report, Apple is also expecting to ship five million units of the wearable device a month, and is aiming to sell more than 50 million Apple Watches in 2015.

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Apple was also said to be in talks with Samsung to provide AMOLED panels for the device, however the company ultimately decided that all displays for its smartwatch would come from LG. The news is similar to a report last October from The Korea Herald, which noted that Apple was close to striking a deal with LG to supply panels for its wearable after talks with Samsung were said to be “not productive.”

The Apple Watch will begin shipping in early 2015 and come in two sizes of 38mm and 42mm (1.5 and 1.7 inches), with six available casing materials and six different bands. The Apple Watch will be also organized into three editions, including the entry-level Apple Watch Sport collection, the stainless-steel Apple Watch collection, and the high-end luxury Apple Watch Edition collection. Pricing will start at $349.




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17
Sep

iOS 8 doesn’t play well with Dropbox’s automatic backup feature


You excited that iOS 8’s scheduled to land on your iPhones and iPads later? Cool, but if you avidly use Dropbox to back up your photos and videos, the new software comes bundled with a dash of disappointment. According to Dropbox, its service has an unfortunate compatibility issue with Apple’s latest mobile platform that specifically affects the Automatic Backup function. The new software apparently prevents both Dropbox and its photo managing app Carousel from properly uploading photos and videos to the cloud.

The company says it’s working with Apple to resolve the issue, but for now, it advises those who choose to upgrade their software to refrain from deleting their files until it issues a fix. Also, you’ll get a Dropbox and a Carousel update soon (if you haven’t yet) that temporarily suspends Automatic Backup to prevent confusion on which files have actually been uploaded. Of course, you can always upload photos and videos through a computer, but if you’re too lazy to find that cord, you may want to cross your fingers for a quick patch.

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Source: Dropbox

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17
Sep

​Sony expects losses to quadruple because of its smartphones


Once again recalibrating its bad news for the latest financial quarter, Sony has quadrupled its forecast loss for the financial year and it’s down to those Xperia smartphones. The company already cut its forecast for smartphone sales in July, and this latest reassessment – to the sum of a 180 billion yen ($1.7 billion) “impairment” – comes following an internal review of it mobile arm in mid-summer. It found that the mobile arm was focused on “achieving significant sales growth” which apparently is no longer the game plan: the company is now aiming towards reducing risk, volatility and “more stable profits”. (Some profit is likely a good place to start.) The revision will also factor new strategies depending on regions, and a focus on its premium smartphones — and likely a reduction in its midrange devices.

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Source: Sony

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17
Sep

Why Would You Use Vehicle Digital recording device


The documentations from the camera play an important role in safeguarding you against wrong accusations on the reason for the accident additionally, it prevents the potential of high claims out of your insurance provider. The documentations from the Digital recording device system contain the health of the street, the traffic load, the elements condition at that time the accident happens, and also the behavior or act from the driver just before the crash. They are helpful for research. The Vehicle Digital recording device may also be used to deal with the claims of accidents. The machine has been used right now to record all of the occasions of the journey to ensure that if the accident happens, the footage from the video assists as evidence.

You will need to drive carefully, understanding that you are being supervised through the camera. So, it will help to build up a great driving habit in compliance with traffic rules and rules. By so doing, the likelihood of getting a car crash combined using its attending insurance claims is going to be reduced. The unit is very advantageous too in regards to providing you with the awareness of safe driving.

In case your vehicle continues to be hit when you were from it, you are able to have a look in the videos to determine precisely what happened, whether or not this was any sort of accident or otherwise. It might be also possible to accept number plate associated with a vehicle which had hit you, no matter if the driver understood they’d or otherwise. The apparent reason to utilize a vehicle Digital recording device product is to maintain your automobile safe, because of so many various ways your automobile may come to harm the Digital recording device is really a potent tool.

Likewise a far more serious crime like thievery out of your vehicle or perhaps a stolen vehicle might be recorded through the vehicle Digital recording device, permitting you to definitely positively find out the perpetrator, or at best possess the video as evidence. Many automobile proprietors would be the victim of crime, along with a vehicle Digital recording device will help catch anybody who works a criminal offence upon your vehicle. The crime might take the type of simple vandalism, something similar to managing a key lower the duration of your vehicle, a properly-situated camera would permit you to see and perhaps find out the person responsible.

If you would like your camera to do something like a deterrent, you don’t have to show it you just convey a sticker in your vehicle (normally the window) stating that your vehicle is Digital recording device protected. Normally, this is enough for just about any potential crooks not to target your vehicle. However, a vehicle owner prefer to don’t have any crime committed against them, and also the vehicle Digital recording device could possibly be the perfect deterrent to crooks. Nowadays Digital recording device systems for cars are superbly compact, meaning they could possibly be hidden somewhere around the vehicle and remain hidden to anybody who not know they’re there.

If you’re within the community you will be aware how awkward it may be to fit sometimes, along side it mirrors will never be quite enough to suit into individuals tight spaces. However for those who have a screen inside your vehicle you’ll be able to connect the Digital recording device system and make up a live feed, in which a well-situated camera could assist you in parking. The final reason why you need to make use of a vehicle Digital recording device happens because it can benefit in tight parking situations.
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17
Sep

Goat-inspired prosthetic leg is designed to give rock climbers better footing


For all the neural-controlled, bluetooth-enabled and sport-specific prosthetics humanity has designed over the years, one thing remains constant: most of of them are lousy for climbing rock faces. Design student Kai Lin learned this while researching artificial limbs in a prosthetic-design class at Pratt Institute — traditional leg prosthetics don’t have enough grip or articulation to facilitate effective climbing. Lin’s solution to the problem is almost elegant in its simplicity. He designed a prosthetic leg inspired by one of nature’s best rock climbers: the mountain goat.

Why a goat? Well, aside from the amazing YouTube videos one can find of the creatures scaling near vertical rock faces, Lin found that the cupped surface of the goat’s hooves create natural suction on hard surfaces. Better still, the hard outer shell gives the animals stable footing on steep rocks. Inspired by the hoof, Lin created three prototype stilts to help him refine the footing for his prosthetic design, eventually settling on a mid-sized foot with a hoof-like sole.

Does it work? Unfortunately, we don’t know just yet. Lin is still in the design phase, and hasn’t reached the point where he’s comfortable producing a working prototype. When he does finish the design, he plans on calling the prosthetic Klippa — Swedish for “cliff.” You can check out the student’s design work at the Pratt Institute link at the source link below.

[Image credit: Kai Lin, Pratt Institute]

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Via: Gizmodo

Source: Pratt Institute Portfolios

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17
Sep

‘Deep Web’ is a show based on the Silk Road story


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If the hacker bits in House of Cards‘ second season stoked a fire in you for the illicit parts of the internet, maybe Spike TV and Gary Oldman (pictured above) have you covered. The former has partnered with the latter and a few others to produce a series called Deep Web about, you guessed it, the hidden version of the internet where one can buy just about anything you could imagine. Like hacking software, drugs and automatic weaponry, for example. The show is based on Ross Ulbricht’s ascension to the top of the online underworld and the Silk Road’s bitcoin shopping mall, according to Deadline. Other details are scarce at the moment including when we might actually see it and how fictionalized it’ll be (our guess? pretty heavily), but there’s plenty of time for that info to surface, we’d imagine. For now, let’s just hope there are 100 percent less guinea pigs and obscure techno than in what we’ve seen recently.

[Image credit: AFP/Getty Images]

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Via: MorningAfter

Source: Deadline

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